Breaking News: India will field third team in the Open section of 44th Chess Olympiad
Two months after AICF announced the biggest ever Indian squad for 44th Chess Olympiad, AICF makes another major announcement. India will have its third team in the Open section. As per the Olympiad Pairing Rules in the FIDE Handbook, if there is an odd number of participating teams, the organising federation has the right to enter a third team. Yesterday, it was announced that the Open section has 187 teams. Thus, a provision for the third team arose. The India 3 team will comprise - GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly, GM Karthikeyan Murali, GM Sethuraman S P, GM Abhijeet Gupta and GM Abhimanyu Puranik. The Captain of the team will be Tejas Bakre. Photo: AICF
There will be three Indian teams in the Open section
Board no.: 1. GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly, 2. GM Karthikeyan Murali, 3. GM Sethuraman S P, 4. GM Abhijeet Gupta and 5. GM Abhimanyu Puranik
GM Tejas Bakre will be the captain and coach for the third team in the Open section.
Source: AICF
Team list in Open
No. | Team | RtgAvg | Captain | |
1 | United States of America | 2771 | Donaldson, John | |
2 | Azerbaijan | 2705 | Abasov, Nijat | |
3 | India | 2696 | Narayanan, Srinath | |
4 | Norway | 2692 | Haarr, Jon Kristian | |
5 | Spain | 2687 | Magem Badals, Jordi | |
6 | Poland | 2683 | Socko, Bartosz | |
7 | Netherlands | 2672 | Smeets, Jan | |
8 | Ukraine | 2666 | Sulypa, Oleksandr | |
9 | Germany | 2664 | Gustafsson, Jan | |
10 | England | 2662 | Pein, Malcolm | |
11 | India 2 | 2649 | Ramesh, R B | |
12 | Armenia | 2642 | Pashikian, Arman | |
13 | Iran | 2636 | Pourramezanali, Amirreza | |
14 | Uzbekistan | 2625 | Sokolov, Ivan | |
15 | France | 2621 | Maze, Sebastien | |
16 | Hungary | 2621 | Acs, Peter | |
17 | Czech Republic | 2612 | Simacek, Pavel | |
18 | Croatia | 2611 | Kozul, Zdenko | |
19 | Romania | 2605 | Miron, Lucian-Costin | |
20 | Turkey | 2602 | Kanmazalp, Ogulcan |
Team list in Women
No. | Team | RtgAvg | Captain | |
1 | India | 2486 | Kunte, Abhijit | |
2 | Ukraine | 2478 | Brodsky, Michail | |
3 | Georgia | 2475 | Jojua, Davit | |
4 | Kazakhstan | 2441 | Kotsur, Pavel | |
5 | Poland | 2423 | Dziuba, Marcin | |
6 | France | 2400 | Gozzoli, Yannick | |
7 | Azerbaijan | 2399 | Mamedov, Nidjat | |
8 | United States of America | 2390 | Khachiyan, Melikset | |
9 | Germany | 2383 | Yakovich, Yuri | |
10 | Bulgaria | 2367 | Arnaudov, G. Petar | |
11 | Armenia | 2367 | ||
12 | India 2 | 2351 | Swapnil, S. Dhopade | |
13 | Hungary | 2342 | Papp, Gabor | |
14 | Spain | 2327 | Martinez Martin, David | |
15 | Cuba | 2324 | Alvarez Pedraza, Aramis | |
16 | Netherlands | 2312 | Bosch, Jeroen | |
17 | Serbia | 2312 | Chelushkina, Irina | |
18 | Indonesia | 2304 | Lumondong, Lisa Karlina | |
19 | Israel | 2289 | Botvinnik, Ilia | |
20 | Romania | 2283 | Szabo, Gergely-Andras-Gyula |